The Palestinians And British Perfidy: The Tragic Aftermath Of The Balfour Declaration Of 1917
by C.W.R. Long /
2018 / English / PDF
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Ottoman Turkey's decision to ally with Germany in the First World
War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle
East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of
its people (93% of them Arab) the November 1917 Balfour Declaration
withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and, for
strategic reasons, earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the
Jewish People. Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial Office
official, remarked that "The U.K. proposed to hand (Palestine),
without consulting the occupants, to a third party; and what sort
of third party!" The result was the foundation of Israel in 1948.
Through ethnic cleansing and massacre, the new state drove out
helpless Palestinian victims of Perfidious Albion, in whom London
at no stage showed the slightest interest. They were condemned to
seventy years in refugee camps or to second-class citizenship of
Israel as, in the words of an Israeli Foreign Minister, the
land-grab state was "born in sin." Credit for this shameful act is
generally given to the Zionist supporters of Theodore Herzl. But
Britain cleared the way by expelling the Mufti of Jerusalem, the
Palestinians' only leader, providing the Zionists, who
extraordinarily made concurrent overtures to Hitler and Mussolini,
with military training in Britain's Second World War campaigns in
Iraq and Syria. Itself ejected by its ungrateful protege, Britain
lost all the aims of its Declaration (no base to guard the Suez
Canal, no Haifa port, no railway to Iraq, and no oil pipeline) and
all its prestige in the Arab World. [Subject: Middle East Studies,
History, International Relations]
Ottoman Turkey's decision to ally with Germany in the First World
War led directly to the British (and French) conquest of the Middle
East and sealed the fate of Palestine. In a monstrous betrayal of
its people (93% of them Arab) the November 1917 Balfour Declaration
withheld the independence they rightly anticipated and, for
strategic reasons, earmarked Palestine as a National Home for the
Jewish People. Ronald Storrs, a British Foreign and Colonial Office
official, remarked that "The U.K. proposed to hand (Palestine),
without consulting the occupants, to a third party; and what sort
of third party!" The result was the foundation of Israel in 1948.
Through ethnic cleansing and massacre, the new state drove out
helpless Palestinian victims of Perfidious Albion, in whom London
at no stage showed the slightest interest. They were condemned to
seventy years in refugee camps or to second-class citizenship of
Israel as, in the words of an Israeli Foreign Minister, the
land-grab state was "born in sin." Credit for this shameful act is
generally given to the Zionist supporters of Theodore Herzl. But
Britain cleared the way by expelling the Mufti of Jerusalem, the
Palestinians' only leader, providing the Zionists, who
extraordinarily made concurrent overtures to Hitler and Mussolini,
with military training in Britain's Second World War campaigns in
Iraq and Syria. Itself ejected by its ungrateful protege, Britain
lost all the aims of its Declaration (no base to guard the Suez
Canal, no Haifa port, no railway to Iraq, and no oil pipeline) and
all its prestige in the Arab World. [Subject: Middle East Studies,
History, International Relations]